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From: mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: aliases in sendmail
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:29:56 GMT
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Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I am rather new to systems
administration and have a few questions about sendmail aliases.

We have a DEC system 5400 running Ultrix 3.1C.  We are on the Internet
and have things configured so that mail to the address user@du.edu goes
to the 5400.  The 5400's name is diana.cair.du.edu.  We also have a VMS
cluster with several thousand users that also want to be able to tell
others that thier address is user@du.edu.  Currently, several of the
VMS users have gotten accounts on diana and then set up a .forward to
the VMS cluster.

Would it be better to put them all in /usr/lib/aliases or keep the 
.forward scheme?  

Is there any difference in performance in sendmail when it is searching 
a large alias file or the password file?

Please reply to mbrookov@du.edu or this news group.

Thanks.

-- 
Matthew B. Brookover
Computing and Information Resources
University of Denver
mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu